A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE COMPLETION OF INDIGENOUS AND FOREIGN DOCTORAL RESEARCH

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major-bidi">Doctoral education is the foundation of the exploratory advancement



and creativity is known as a vital fuel for the economy of worldwide learning. The study was aimed at comparing the



factors affecting the completion of foreign and indigenous doctoral research.



The objectives of the study were; to find out the factors affecting the completion



of indigenous and foreign doctoral research; to explore the extent to which



factors remain consistent across the completion of foreign and indigenous



doctoral research; to examine the extent to which  factors differentiate between foreign and



Pakistani departmental policies; to compare the factors affecting between male



and female doctoral researchers; to compare the factors affecting between



foreign and indigenous doctoral researchers. The research design of the study



was qualitative in nature. Population of the study was consisting of foreign



and indigenous Ph.D teachers from the faculty of social sciences of public and



private universities of Islamabad. Sample was selected using stratified



sampling technique. Semi-structured interview was used as a data collection



tool by the researcher. 29 indigenous and 19 foreign interviews were conducted



by the personal visit of researcher. Collected data were analyzed manually by



the researcher and presented in the full text narrative form. The findings of



the study inferred that most of the foreign and indigenous had friendly



relation with their supervisor and supervisor was always helping for them. Most



of respondents were highly satisfied with the departmental practices and



policies, and most of them had tremendous family support during their doctoral



research. It was recommended that researchers may be devoted and honest towards



doctoral research and departmental management may be cooperative with the



doctoral research students.